Carlos Ml. Sánchez Ortega

• Optimized current designs for increased efficiency, reducing material waste and production costs.
• Participated in formal internal design reviews of proposed products and components.
• Developed innovative solutions to complex engineering problems, contributing to the company''s competitive advantage.
• Improved product development by conducting thorough research and analysis of new technologies.

Family operated coffee micro mill. Responsible for production, quality control and sales. Produce high quality micro lots exported to specialty coffee roasters.

Green coffee production program and quality control for production mill. Sales & Purchase contract management and trade position keeper.

Responsibilities:

• Program the mill´s daily routine according to Trade department contract sales and Logistic´s shipping availability.
  
• Manage weekly shifts and staff according to work load.
• Budget planning and execution.
• Ensure safety and quality standards for client and logistic certifications.
• Quality cross control as for machinery efficiency and customer standards.

Major Accomplishments:

• Accommodate new work shifts saving on temporary (harvest) staff and lower labor costs during off season.
• Improved coffee loading input, increased productivity by 5% and diminished machinery dead time.
• Bulk storage project underway: groundbreaking method to store and unload coffee which will solve labor constraints, lower input costs and increase productivity.

Entrepreneurship project committed to offer consumers high end export quality coffee from all eight Costa Rican producing regions. Responsible for accounting, finances, social networks and coffee based activities.

Responsibilities:

• Look after efficiency and productivity standards for all mill processes: depulping, water consumption, drying and water treatment.
• During off season, mill engineer is in charge of maintenance program, budget control and production flow changes as continuous improvement.
• Quality cross control as for machinery and / or mechanical defects given to the product.

Major Accomplishments:

• Along four harvests in Costa Rica´s largest private coffee mill, new process measurements were installed in order to set new efficiency standards. Water consumption lowered 30%.
• Integral solutions were brought by changing process time shifts, diminishing machinery dead time. These modifications helped the condition in which waste water was being treated, lowering external water treatment bills up to 40%.
• Gas produced by the water treatment plant was better distributed increasing fuel consumption efficiency by 20%.
• Design projects along with Volcafe´s R&D Department, committed to adapt and improve existing none coffee equipment into the coffee industry, primarily waste water technologies (DAF, Centriflux).
  

Responsibilities:

• Research and bench-marking to ensure Volcafe´s front-line position as a local and global leader in coffee production.
• Standardization of Volcafe´s mils processes among themselves.
• Improve, design and / or build any necessary production solutions for Volcafe´s mills.

Major Accomplishments:

• Design, develop and build Volcafe´s first coffee drying furnace. Market options came short to the company´s desired air volume capacities for future productive investments. Therefore R&D had to build one, custom made for equipment already installed and upgraded. Tested and proven to be more efficient against other market options regarding heat transfer and fuel consumption, at a lower retail cost per energy unit delivered. Nowadays Volcafe has built four furnaces based on the first design.